Russia Exploits African Recruits with Anti-Tank Mines in Ukraine War

Reports emerging from the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine reveal a disturbing practice by Russian military forces: strapping anti-tank mines to African recruits who were lured to fight with empty promises of citizenship and a better life.

False Promises, Deadly Reality

The Russian military has been actively recruiting from African nations, promising opportunities that never materialize. Instead, these recruits find themselves used as expendable assets in Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine.

According to sources on social media, including verified accounts tracking Russian military activities, African soldiers are being equipped with anti-tank mines strapped to their bodies—essentially turning them into human weapons.

Dugin's Racist Ideology

This treatment aligns disturbingly well with the ideology promoted by Alexander Dugin, often called "Putin's brain" and a key foreign policy advisor. Dugin's "Hyperborean theory" explicitly dehumanizes people from the Global South, referring to Africans and others as "non-humans" and "animal people."

In his writings, Dugin describes the Southern hemisphere as "the land of the night... inhabited by animal people - dumb and brainless." This racist pseudoscience appears to inform how Russia's military treats its African recruits.

A Wake-Up Call for the Global South

These revelations should serve as a stark warning to nations in the Global South who have been targeted by Russian propaganda portraying Moscow as an anti-colonial ally. The reality shows Russia treating African lives as completely disposable.

The European Union and its allies continue to document these human rights abuses as part of the broader pattern of Russian war crimes in Ukraine.